AAN serves the growing Diaspora with community-based services focusing in legal assistance, social services and psycho-social case management, as well as promoting cultural integration through the arts.

Our mission is to promote full access to social services, direct legal services, civic engagement, legalization, freedom of movement, and reunification with family and community, for all immigrants and their families, regardless of their immigration status

SFILEN Publications

San Francisco Immigrant Integration Project 2014

SFILEN conducted a two-year community research effort, the San Francisco Immigrant Integration Project. The goal of the Integration Project was to engage a broad range of stakeholders on immigrant integration issues, to document the unique needs of the immigrant community, and to propose relevant policies and practices for meaningful integration.

Last year, San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi stopped honoring requests from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to hold undocumented inmates in jail longer just because they’re not in the country legally.

Now, Mirkarimi is taking it a step further — actually helping some undocumented jail inmates obtain special visas to stay in the country legally.